‘All policemen are not corrupt’

The Traffic Head Constable R Sanjeeva Reddy

Minutes after an autorickshaw came to an abrupt halt on the busy stretch of Lakdikapul-Saifabad, a 50-year-old traffic head constable, who was regulating traffic in front of the Director General of Police (DGP)’s office, blew his whistle and said, “Gaadi ko aage lelo” (move the vehicle away). The auto driver, however, called another auto and started hurriedly shifting three bags into it. The cop then called out to the autowallah once again telling him to clear the area. One of the occupants of the auto then walked up to the cop and offered him a bribe to calm down for a while as they were shifting the material. Smelling something fishy, the constable decided to see what the material was. As he opened one of the bags, he was left aghast. It was stuffed with currency bundles! “When the person tried to bribe me, I thought they must be carrying something illegally. As I was checking it, the person fled. I found that the three bags were full of 1,000 rupee bundles,” recalled R Sanjeeva Reddy, the head constable attached to the Saifabad Traffic Police whose presence of mind led the police to a major catch of Rs 6.70 crore of unaccounted money on Wednesday. The day after, however, it was business as usual for Sanjeeva Reddy who got busy with his traffic control duty at the DGP office. “Sir, all policemen are not corrupt. Though I was offered a bribe, I refused to accept it. I warned them of taking the auto to the police station.” When he asked them about the bags, the auto driver and the other person said they were carrying some valuable material for marriage purpose, he said. After the duo fled, he handed over the three cash bags to the chief security officer of the DGP office while alerting his higher ups. Minutes later, higher officials, including additional commissioner of police, Traffic, CV Anand who were in the DGP office came out and verified the contents of the bags much to their astonishment. “Anand sir patted me and appreciated my work. It was a big day in my life,” Sanjeeva Reddy said with a sparkle in his eyes. Sanjeeva Reddy joined the department in 1983 as a constable and worked in the Head Office, CAR, Law and Order wing in Asifnagar police station. He was promoted as head constable and transferred to the Saifabad traffic police station a few years ago.  Senior police are planning to reward Reddy for his outstanding job.

By Mouli Mareedu
moulimareedu@gmail.com

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Country must appreciate Sanjeeva Reddy for his honest duty simply because he is from Middle class.. Because middle class only having good principles and this country to day is progressing means with middle class people only. The poor class (auto drivers will bend to any bribe) the rich class the other person in other end that is the so called owner of the cash belongs to rich class. Our politicians also rich class and their appreciation of Sanjeeva Reddy is not from their heart. People must understand. The statement all police men are not corrupt is correct to some extent

Posted by Mahesh at 11/09/2012 12:31 Reply to this Report 

 

Well done Mr. Reddy. The country needs more people like you. The country is still surviving because there are honest people left who are ready to fight against corruption in an undemonstrative way unlike politicians.

Posted by Vidhi at 11/09/2012 14:46 Reply to this Report abuse

 

Had Mr.Reddy been corrupt he would have become wealthier by demanding more money to allow the auto after seeing the currency.But his conscious never leaned towards the corrupt money but made him a highly responsible,sincere and disciplined HC with moral values.This is a great lesson to all DSPs,IPS officers who earn crores as bribes.I request you to kindly send these mails to Sanjeeva Reddy so that he will be happy to know the public response. Posted by Jayaprakash Katta at 11/09/2012 15:56 Reply to this Report abuse

 

Very happy to read this. India is happy to have such an honest head constable in Sri sanjiva reddy . He deserves much more higher responsibility. Again congrats to him.

Posted by Mohanraj at 11/09/2012 23:33 Reply to this Report abuse

City airport a safe conduit for drugs?

The two persons, who were caught transporting narcotic substances at the Rajiv Gandhi international airport at Shamshabad here, have confessed that they are professional traffickers in ‘happy tablets’ (Methaqualone) to other countries by air. The two Tamilians, who smuggled drugs many times to other countries by air, chose the city airport which they found to be a ‘safe conduit’ because of lack of thorough checking. A senior officer of the Air Intelligence Unit said the due had transported the Methaqualone drug from airports in Goa and Bangalore in the past but chose the Hyderabad airport this time to transport the drug as they thought customs check here was a little lax. But luck did not favour them in their maiden attempt here as the customs officials nabbed them and recovered huge quantities of the depressant from them. Customs officials collected valuable information from the accused and alerted the Bangalore, Chennai and Goa airport officials about the possible drug smuggling by cargo flights from those airports by the gang. They provided the names and other details of the gang to their counterparts. The accused, Rakhi McGuinness (28) and  Abhilash Vijayan (30), were detained at the RGIA while they were about to board a Kualalumpur-bound flight carrying 10 kg of Methaqualone. Police seized the narcotic substance from them.  Another senior officer from one of the investigation agencies said many companies  manufacture Methaqualone for medical usage. Consumption of just one tablet of  Methaqualone gives a heavy sedation.

By Mouli Mareedu
moulimareedu@gmail.com